What are the events in life that trigger us to reach back into our past, to our saved memories on tapes, photos, audio cassettes, and bring them back to life? It’s a question I ask our customers often. It is an interesting question. Everything that comes through our door that’s not alive, are decades old. Film reels? They hail from the ’50s, ’60s, that makes them over a half century old.

So what prompts their owners to finally pull them out of a dark closet? Here are some of the reasons I’ve gotten:

A big birthday, say turning 80, or in the case of the Town of Needham, turning 350

George is an amazingly loyal customer of Play It Again Video. He has been here 9 times! He just keeps finding more and more stuff. Martin Scorsese may not have shown up yet, but George you are our Martin Scorsese. Thank you George!